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Book SynopsisMaurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, especially in its intense concern with the question of writing as such. This volume collects his political writings from 1953 to 1993.
Trade Review"Maurice Blanchot's leftist political writings are a major testament to this writer's perspicacity, independence and honor. His writings from the 1968 revolution are among the most piercing political tracts ever written, and the entire collection is an invaluable document for anyone working in French literary and political history of the last century." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Virginia "This selection of essays provides rich insights into the ways one of France's leading writers interpreted and related to the political history of his country in the decades following the second World War." -- -Samuel Weber Northwestern University
